Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-12-15
BEHIND TIE RARN.

barn, refuse to pay me royalty on them
and then to heap additional shame and
obloquy upon me, they name their
domestic animals after me | had
always believed the Americans o be n
wild and hairy, Yet generous race. |
was taught TO regard them as people
who wore the r trousers and stab knives
in their boot legs, but loved to see fair
play; but when | am ch sellcd out of
my ready kopecks, and unscrupulous
publishers on this side stand in with
Amerioan hustlcrS TO cable Iny bran
new tragedy across the Atlantic before
/ can sign IL and turn around to spit,
and then emphasize their bloody insult
by chr stening Percheron horse IN
Illinois with my name in full, say that
literature is at low cbb in your
country.
You are all Eagle Screams and
Fourth Of July and Starry Banner Free
and blooming brag by Jove, and no
cider. sometimes wish that haA
been born with just barely brains
enough for my own use. You cannot
really understand how ii g hausts one
to jerk the Tyre for all creation and not
get half aid for it.
But some day the coarse and greedy
American will wake up and demand a
poem that shall be soaked iull OF a sad,
musical and rythmical violation OF the
statutes in such case made and pro-
vided, and he will ask for the use of
my four. horse teeming brain, but 1t will
be stilled forever. Then he will be
sorry and will come and VIII tile of
pieces of my fence to remember me by,
and 90 down into my wine cellar and
sob and say that England and the
world have met with great loss, and
he will be right about it You hear me,
ALGERoN CHARLES SwINBURNE.
Gen. Boulanger cables:
SIR: Will you pardon me to try and
cablegram you in your own language
of what / shall say TO youP am the
author of what you should nominate
"Boulanger's March, which | am to
understand is what you should designate
in your country one grand crazy. Is it
not SOP
To my ears it comes very frequently
as you say, that to hear anything else
musical in America but ''Boulanger' S
March" and "What the Little Dickey
Birds Remark" is impossible,
Yet get moth nc Tor all OF those but
to have my portrait translated into
broken English, as you say, and pub
lished in She papers. Cannot your
paper assist in one grand difficulty
which shall result in law that shall
make the author or the criminal both
together, reap the rewards of his acts,
and so wherever he shall go to, whether
midas icy mountains or Grecnland's
coral strands, as some one has said, he
shall not escape. but be rewarded or
punished so much in one country as the
other. whether he shall steal bank
rationale or write poem?
Then should get a small sum when
my march is sold along what we shall
call the Rue dc Park row. Then shall !
re oicement first rate when everybody
shall whistle il or play it or sing It,
now close up this letter with a small
remark and it is this: When you shall
expect to have great authors, or send
good men TO foreign countries to repre-
sent your grand country, do not ono
mize too much ardon me TO wr to
you q mean thing, but II will take n
century to make your literature and
your foreign ministry grow up so that
they shall lit your great financial en-
barrassments
will now excuse you and sayso long,
with my love to the presiding officer of
your country, whose name | do not
now recall.
Another gentleman, who asks to have
his name withheld. rites rs follows:
SIR: Will you kindly use your influence
in the direction of international copy
rightp | suppose that ! have suffered
no more than others, but feel keenly
the loss have sustained through the
lack Of protection to my brains. Tor
one session was chaplain in our
national congress. aud the prayers with
which | opened the session We're re,
garded so highly by friends that had
the stenpgraphcr take them down, and
at the 6lose Of the sessl n published